Pubbl/distr/stampa	Thousand Oaks, [Calif.] ; ; London, : SAGE, 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiii, 622 p.)
Disciplina	305.850973
Altri autori (Persone)	ColemanMarilyn GanongLawrence H
Soggetto topico	Families - United States Pluralism (Social sciences) - United States
ISBN	1-78268-865-X 1-4522-6158-X 1-4129-7602-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I - Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future; Chapter 1 - Household Diversity: The Starting Point for Healthy Families in the New Century; Chapter 2 - Alternate Lifestyles Today: Off the Family Studies Screen; Chapter 3 - The Social and Cultural Construction of American Childhood; Part II - Contemporary Couples; Chapter 4 - Cohabitation and Family Change; Chapter 5 - Variations in Marriage over Time: An Ecological/Exchange Perspective; Chapter 6 - Gay Men and Lesbians: The Family Context Chapter 7 - Ambiguous Constructions: Development of a Childless or Child-Free Life CourseChapter 8 - Intimate Relationships in Later Life: Current Realities, Future Prospects; Part III - Gender Issues in Contemporary Families; Chapter 9 - Jobs, Marriage, and Parenting: Working It Out in Dual-Earner Families; Chapter 10 - Gendered Family Relations: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same; Chapter 11 - Feminist Visions for Transforming Families: Desire and Equality Then and Now; Part IV - Raising Children in Contemporary Families Chapter 12 - Encountering Oppositions: A Review of Scholarship about MotherhoodChapter 13 - Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas; Chapter 14 - Pathogenic-Conflict Families and Children: What We Know, What We Need to Know; Part V - Changing Family Structures; Chapter 15 - Divorce in Social and Historical Context: Changing Scientific Perspectives on Children and Marital Dissolution; Chapter 16 - Single-Parent Families: Risks, Resilience, and Change; Chapter 17 - Britain's Changing Families; Chapter 18 - Stepfamilies: Changes and Challenges Part VI - Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary FamiliesChapter 19 - Continuing Research on Latino Families: El Pasado y el Futuro ; Chapter 20 - Diversity in African American Families: Trends and Projections; Chapter 21 - Asian American Families: Diverse History, Contemporary Trends, and the Future; Chapter 22 - A ""Seven-Generation"" Approach to American Indian Families; Chapter 23 - Muslim Families in the United States; Part VII - Families in Society; Chapter 24 - Families and Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Communities: Linkages in a Diverse and Dynamic Cultural Context Chapter 25 - Family Law for Changing Families in the New MilleniumChapter 26 - Building Enduring Family Policies in the 21st Century: The Past as Prologue?; Chapter 27 - The Disturbing Paradox of Poverty in American Families: What We Have Learned over the Past Four Decades; Part VIII - Technology and Contemporary Families; Chapter 28 - Brave New Families: Modern Health Technologies and Family Creation; Chapter 29 - Understanding the Effects of the Internet on Family Life; Part IX - Working with Contemporary Families Chapter 30 - Family Therapy's Response to Family Diversity: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910810877303321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; ; London, : SAGE, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (513 p.)
Disciplina	362.5560973
Altri autori (Persone)	CraneD. Russell HeatonTim B
Soggetto topico	Poverty - United States Poor families - United States Families - United States Economic assistance, Domestic - United States Public welfare - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-78268-906-0 1-4522-1456-5 1-4129-7659-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: WHAT WELFARE CAN AND CANNOT DO; 1 - Innovation in Social Policy; 2 - Social Policy and Marriage; 3 - Working Families Should Not Be Poor; 4 - Who Will Care When Parents Can't?; Part II: POVERTY AMONG DIVERSE POPULATIONS AND SETTINGS; 5 - Understanding the Processes Through Which Economic Hardship Influences Families and Children; 6 - Early Childhood Education and Care; 7 - Appalachian Families and Poverty; 8 - Poverty and Economic Polarization Among Children in Racial Minority and Immigrant Families 9 - Processes of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Poor Families10 - Mexican American Families and Poverty; 11 - Mexican Immigrant Childbearing Women; 12 - Food Insecurity and Provisioning; 13 - How Economically Disadvantaged Are American Elderly Women?; 14 - The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Community Functioning of People With Serious Mental Illnessand Their Families; 15 - Addiction and Medicaid; 16 - Incarceration, Poverty, and Families; 17 - Children's Time Use and Parental Involvement in Low-Income Families; 18 - Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes for Children in Poverty 19 - Challenging Social Inequalities in HealthPart III: INTERVENTION AND EDUCATION FOR WORKING WITH POOR FAMILIES; 20 - Giving Head Start a Fresh Start; 21 - Grandparents; 22 - Poor Fathers' Involvement in the Lives of Their Children; 23 - The Health-Care Safety Netfor Mexican-Origin Families; 24 - Federal Policy Efforts to Improve Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Families by Supporting Marriage and Family Stability; 25 - Microenterprise; 26 - Working With Families in Poverty; 27 - Increasing Marriage Would Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480808603321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; ; London, : SAGE, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiv, 495 p.) : ill
Disciplina	362.5560973
Altri autori (Persone)	CraneD. Russell HeatonTim B
Soggetto topico	Poverty - United States Poor families - United States Families - United States Economic assistance, Domestic - United States Public welfare - United States
ISBN	1-78268-906-0 1-4522-1456-5 1-4129-7659-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: WHAT WELFARE CAN AND CANNOT DO; 1 - Innovation in Social Policy; 2 - Social Policy and Marriage; 3 - Working Families Should Not Be Poor; 4 - Who Will Care When Parents Can't?; Part II: POVERTY AMONG DIVERSE POPULATIONS AND SETTINGS; 5 - Understanding the Processes Through Which Economic Hardship Influences Families and Children; 6 - Early Childhood Education and Care; 7 - Appalachian Families and Poverty; 8 - Poverty and Economic Polarization Among Children in Racial Minority and Immigrant Families 9 - Processes of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Poor Families10 - Mexican American Families and Poverty; 11 - Mexican Immigrant Childbearing Women; 12 - Food Insecurity and Provisioning; 13 - How Economically Disadvantaged Are American Elderly Women?; 14 - The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on the Community Functioning of People With Serious Mental Illnessand Their Families; 15 - Addiction and Medicaid; 16 - Incarceration, Poverty, and Families; 17 - Children's Time Use and Parental Involvement in Low-Income Families; 18 - Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes for Children in Poverty 19 - Challenging Social Inequalities in HealthPart III: INTERVENTION AND EDUCATION FOR WORKING WITH POOR FAMILIES; 20 - Giving Head Start a Fresh Start; 21 - Grandparents; 22 - Poor Fathers' Involvement in the Lives of Their Children; 23 - The Health-Care Safety Netfor Mexican-Origin Families; 24 - Federal Policy Efforts to Improve Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Families by Supporting Marriage and Family Stability; 25 - Microenterprise; 26 - Working With Families in Poverty; 27 - Increasing Marriage Would Dramatically Reduce Child Poverty; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910826987203321

Edizione	[Reprint 2012]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Munich, [Germany] : , : K. G. Saur, , 1992
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (442 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	306.850973
Collana	History of Women in the United States
Soggetto topico	Families - United States Women - United States - History Households - United States - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	3-11-097019-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Household Constitution and Family Relationships -- The American Family in Past Time / DEMOS, JOHN -- Parental Power and Marriage Patterns: An Analysis of Historical Trends in Hingham, Massachusetts / SMITH, DANIEL SCOTT -- Family History and Demographic Transition / WELLS, ROBERT V. -- Naming, Kinship, and Estate Dispersal: Notes on Slave Family Life on a South Carolina Plantation, 1786 to 1833 / CODY, CHERYLL ANN -- "The Thing Not Its Vision": A Woman's Courtship and Her Sphere in the Southern Planter Class / STOWE, STEVEN M. -- A Slave Family in the Ante Bellum South / SCHWENINGER, LOREN -- Antebellum Southern Households: A New Perspective on a Familiar Question / FOX-GENOVESE, ELIZABETH -- Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South / WHITE, DEBORAH G. -- Mother Love and Infant Death, 1750-1920 / DYE, NANCY SCHROM / SMITH, DANIEL BLAKE -- Wife Beating in Nineteenth-Century America / PLECK, ELIZABETH -- Family Limitation, Sexual Control, and Domestic Feminism in Victorian America / SMITH, DANIEL SCOTT -- The Origins of the Female-Headed Black Family: The Impact of the Urban Experience / FURSTENBERG, FRANK F. / HERSHBERG, THEODORE / MODELL, JOHN -- Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygyny / IVERSEN, JOAN -- Polygamy and the Frontier: Mormon Women in Early Utah / FOSTER, LAWRENCE -- Korean Women Pioneers of The Pacific Northwest / SUNOO, SONIA S. -- Loving Courtship or the Marriage Market? The Ideal and Its Critics 1871-1911 / HERMAN, SONDRA R. -- Women and Migration: Autonomous Female Migrants to Chicago, 1880-1930 / MEYEROWITZ, JOANNE -- Amerika Nodeshiko: Japanese Immigrant Women in the United States, 1900-1924 / ICHIOKA, YUJI -- Single Mothers and Child Neglect, 1880-1920 / GORDON, LINDA -- Demographic Change and the Life Cycles of American Families / WELLS, ROBERT V. -- Updating the Life Cycle of the Family / GLICK, PAUL C. -- Copyright Information -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463659003321

Autore	Espiritu Yen Le <1963->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina	306.8/089/9921073
Soggetto topico	Filipino Americans - Social conditions Filipino Americans - Ethnic identity Families - United States Transnationalism Racism - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	9786612759147 1-59734-658-6 0-520-92926-8 1-282-75914-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Home making -- Leaving home : Filipino migration/return to the United States -- Positively no Filipinos allowed : differential inclusion and homelessness -- Mobile homes : lives across borders -- Making home : building communities in a Navy town -- Home sweet home : work and changing family relations -- We don't sleep around like white girls do : the politics of home and location -- What of the children? : emerging homes and identities -- Homes, borders, and possibilities.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450232703321